3D Printing Industry (June 25) -- The latest cycle of GE Additive’s $10 million Additive Education Program (AEP) has concluded with the gifting of five direct metal laser melting (DMLM) 3D printers. A leader in bioengineering, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one recipient of a Mlab cusing 200R. In 2017 its engineering department expended $239 million in research, and 15 of the school’s programs are ranked within the top 5 of their kind in the U.S.